Support Archaeology Students

Haven’t given to ASOR’s March Fellowship Madness yet? We are giving away a copy of The Photographs of the American Palestine Exploration Society (AASOR v. 66) by Rachel Hallote, Felicity Cobbing, and Jeffrey Spurr to one of the donors to our fellowship fundraising drive!

Here’s a chance to support a good cause and get something in return! The book includes over 150 never-before published photographs of sites in the Middle East (including sites in Jerusalem, Jerash, and Baalbek) taken in 1875.

March Fellowship Madness is seeking to raise enough funding to allow us to award a record number of excavation fellowships this summer. These fellowships go to deserving students to defray the costs of excavating in the Near East, often meaning the difference between joining a field project or staying home! We are appealing to you for a gift of at least $25 to support this effort, and all money raised for March Fellowship Madness will go directly to supporting fellowships. Go here to give now. Donations are tax-deductible.

The volume we are giving away tells the history of the American Palestine Exploration Society, which was active in the 1870s and worked with the British Palestine Exploration Fund to survey and map archaeological sites in Ottoman Palestine. The Americans’ interactions with the British are examined, and Dumas’ photographs are put into a comparative context alongside those of contemporaries such as Bonfils.

These photographs preserve the appearance of many of these sites when they were first seen by Westerners, before urban development and tourism changed the nature of the region. Photographs include the ruins of Baalbek, Jerash, parts of Jerusalem, and numerous other sites. You can also buy the volume from our distributor.

We will send the book for free to any winner in the US, and we ask only that a non-US recipient pay for international postage. Help us seize this opportunity to send more students into the field! Donate now!

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